Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by gldalmaso » Fri, May 04, 2018, 6:33 PM UTC

Version 6 of Angular Now Available
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Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by AntonyGarand » Fri, May 04, 2018, 10:54 PM UTC

Very nice!

The ng update command will make updating a lot easier, this has been bugging me with the fast release cycle Angular is using.

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by coolspot » Sat, May 05, 2018, 12:01 AM UTC

Beware that new @angular/cli@6.0.0 doesn't support universal node packages that are using fs/net/stream depending on the environment

(e.g. using fs.readFile() when running in Node, while using window.fetch() when running in a browser.)

It seems that Angular team made a decision to not have out-of-the-box support for projects using such packages even in the future [1].

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues/9827#issuecomm...

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by yesimahuman » Sat, May 05, 2018, 2:45 AM UTC

The auto import of providers is my favorite feature in this. Now you can just define something as @Injectable() and make it available in the module automatically. Big improvement over older versions

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by akmittal » Sat, May 05, 2018, 3:35 AM UTC

I was waiting for ivy renderer which is a big improvement. It was not included in this release.

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by rsuelzer » Sat, May 05, 2018, 3:54 AM UTC

Yay. I thought I was done with work for the day but I'm going to start seeing how this update goes. I doubt I will be allowed to spend much time updating packages during the week.

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by catchmeifyoucan » Sat, May 05, 2018, 4:20 AM UTC

Still no support for deleting components in one go. That would improve the toolchain :(

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by megaman22 » Sat, May 05, 2018, 4:32 AM UTC

What is the backwards compatibility and support model for Angular? I just don't have time to chase after things that move this quickly, not and fulfill all my other responsibilities. I'm supporting a mature application that has a front-end started less than eighteen months ago with AngularJS. Maintenance and support on third-party components we use is already starting to dry up. Rewriting things every six months is not reasonable for our team, much as we really ought to stay up to date.

I suppose we'll muddle along until things really break down, but this pace of change is not sustainable, particularly when so much of it just seems like churn for churn's sake.

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by sixdimensional » Sat, May 05, 2018, 5:15 AM UTC

How will WebAssembly play in to Angular in the future?

Re: Version 6 of Angular Now Available

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Post by Yuioup » Sat, May 05, 2018, 5:49 AM UTC

coolspot wrote: post #3

Beware that new @angular/cli@6.0.0 doesn't support universal node packages that are using fs/net/stream depending on the environment (e.g. using fs.readFile() when running in Node, while using window.fetch() when running in a browser.) It seems that Angular team made a decision to not have out-of-the-box support for projects using such packages even in the future [1]. [1] https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/issues…

Makes perfect sense to me.